Right leaning source. http://freebeacon.com/columns/pop-goes-liberal-media-bubble/ Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble Column: Trump drives the mainstream media to abandon the pretense of objectivity For years, reporters were content to obscure their ideological dogmas and partisan goals behind the pretense of objectivity and detachment. Though the Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN practiced combat journalism against conservatives and Republicans, they did so while aspiring to professional standards of facticity and fairness, and applying, every now and then, scrutiny to liberals and Democrats worthy of investigation. Donald Trump changed that, of course. He is so unusual a figure, and his behavior so outlandish, that his rise precipitated a crisis in a profession already decimated by the collapse of print circulation and advertising dollars. The forces that brought Trump to power are alien to the experience of the men and women who populate newsrooms, his supporters unlike their colleagues, friends, and neighbors, his agenda anathema to the catechism of social liberalism, his career and business empire complex and murky and sensational. Little surprise that journalists reacted to his election with a combination of panic, fear, disgust, fascination, exhilaration, and the self-affirming belief that they remain the last line of defense against an emerging American autocracy. Who has time for dispassionate analysis, for methodical research and reporting, when the president's very being is an assault on one's conception of self, when nothing less than the future of the country is at stake? Especially when the depletion of veteran editors, the relative youth and inexperience of political and congressional reporters, and the proliferation of social media, with its hot takes and quips, its groupthink and instant gratification, makes the transition from inquiry to indignation all too easy. There is still excellent journalism. I would point, for starters, to the work on charter flights that led to the resignation of Tom Price. But the overall tone of coverage of this president and his administration is somewhere between the hysterical and the lunatic. Journalists are trapped in a condition of perpetual outrage, seizing on every rumor of discontent and disagreement, reflexively denouncing Trump's every utterance and action, unable to distinguish between genuinely unusual behavior (the firing of Comey, the tenure of Anthony Scaramucci, the "fine people on both sides" quip after Charlottesville) and the elements of Trump's personality and program that voters have already, so to speak, "priced in." Supposedly authoritative news organizations have in one case taken up bizarre mottoes, like "Democracy Dies In Darkness," and in another acted passive-aggressively by filing Trump stories under "entertainment," only to re-categorize the material as news with the disclaimer (since dropped) that Trump is "a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, and birther." The mode of knee-jerk disgust not only prevents the mainstream media from distinguishing between the genuinely interesting stories and the false, partisan, and hackwork ones. It also has had the effect of further marginalizing print and broadcast journalists from middle America.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/snl-completely-avoids-harvey-weinstein-scandal/ Not Funny? SNL Completely Avoids Harvey Weinstein Scandal
https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times/ ‘Harvey Weinstein’s Media Enablers’? The New York Times Is One of Them The paper had a story on mogul’s sexual misconduct back in 2004 — but gutted it under pressure
After months of making the claim that a meeting between Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer is proof of collusion... http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/politics/russia-trump-tower-meeting-new-documents/index.html Russians' lawyer says new documents show Trump Tower meeting not about dirt on Clinton (CNN)An attorney for the Russian billionaire who allegedly pushed for the June 2016 meeting between senior members of Trump's team and a Russian lawyer says he has documents showing the meeting wasn't really about dirt on Hillary Clinton. An email exchange and talking points provided to CNN are the latest indication of how some of the meeting participants plan to make their case about why the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. did not amount to collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign. The new information stands in contrast with the initial email pitching the meeting to Trump Jr., which promised damaging information on Clinton. The emails provided to CNN between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and publicist Rob Goldstone -- who arranged the meeting with Trump Jr. -- show Veselnitskaya asked the morning of the meeting for a Russian-American lobbyist to be added because of his knowledge of the Magnitsky Act, the legislation that put in place US sanctions discussed at the meeting. And a five-page talking points memo also provided to CNN shows Veselnitskaya's case to repeal the Magnitsky Act to improve US-Russia relations, with a passing reference to a possible financer of Clinton's campaign. The June 2016 meeting with Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has attracted intense interest because Trump Jr. was told he would get damaging information on Clinton amid allegations of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Project Veritas. Take it for what it's worth. If the edited the videos so piece together words to make these NYT people say things they never came close to saying, then this is fake news. Otherwise, it fits quite well with what is observed. https://breaking.projectveritas.com/NYTimes1.html Nick Dudich, Audience Strategy Editor for NYT Video, Says the Times Slants Anti-Trump News to the Front Page, "Oh, we always do." Claims to Be "Gatekeeper" for New York Times Videos: "My imprint is on every video we do." Worked for Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Campaigns Admits He Won't Be Objective, "That's why I'm here [at the NYT]." NYT Ethical Handbook: "Journalists... must do nothing that might raise questions about their professional neutrality or that of The Times." Says Former FBI Director James Comey Is His Godfather, "I should have recused myself" Dudich's Family Members Deny Comey Claim (NEW YORK) - Project Veritas has released a video of the New York Times video gatekeeper Nicholas Dudich, who was caught on hidden-camera boasting of his lack of journalistic ethics. Dudich, who serves as Audience Strategy Editor, displays a lack of integrity throughout the video, manages videos which go "on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram" for the Times. While talking about being objective at the Times, Dudich replies candidly, "No I'm not, that's why I'm here." Dudich considers himself an important player at the New York Times, telling the Project Veritas Journalist "my voice is on... my imprint is on every video we do." Dudich goes on to explain what he might do to target President Trump: "I'd target his businesses, his dumb fuck of a son, Donald Jr., and Eric... "Target that. Get people to boycott going to his hotels. Boycott... So a lot of the Trump brands, if you can ruin the Trump brand and you put pressure on his business and you start investigating his business and you start shutting it down, or they're hacking or other things. He cares about his business more than he cares about being President. He would resign. Or he'd lash out and do something incredibly illegal, which he would have to." When the undercover journalist asks Dudich if he could make sure that the anti-Trump stories make it to the front, he replied, "Oh, we always do." As stated in the NYT Ethical Handbook, the goal of the New York Times is to "cover the news as impartially as possible." It continues in Section 62: "Journalists have no place on the playing field of politics. Staff members are entitled to vote, but they must do nothing that might raise questions about their professional neutrality or that of The Times." Before working at the Times, Dudich worked on the political campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In 2016, he was recruited to work for the Clinton campaign: "So I have that background, so when Clinton in 2016... they needed a volunteer strategist to do video... well, they needed someone to help them do video, and how to make it heartfelt, for Clinton." He even had to quit his job in journalism in order to work for the Clinton campaign: "I had to leave my job at Fusion ABC to then take a job at Upworthy where I wasn't deemed a journalist anymore to be able to work for the Clinton campaign." Dudich explains how his activism motivated him to re-engage in the news business: "Like, after the Clinton campaign, I'm like, no I need to get back into news and keep doing shit because, like, this isn't going to change." Nicholas Dudich also told the undercover journalist bizarre stories about his personal connection to the FBI and his previous excitement as part of Anti-Fa. "Yeah, I used to be an Anti-Fa punk once upon a time." he told the undercover journalist. "So, I had fun. They'd start s**t, I'm like, I get to hit you. I'm so excited." He also claims that James Comey, former Director of the FBI, asked him to join Anti-Fa: "I joined that stuff for them [the FBI]. I was an asset... So it was intelligence gathering, seeing if they were [sic], what their agenda was, whether they're a threat or not." "How'd you meet Comey?" asked the Project Veritas journalist. "He's my godfather," Dudich explained. "My dad and mom knew him and his wife for a really long time." "Well the Comey hearing, I should have recused myself, but I'm not ever telling anybody there [at the Times] that I have a tie with that or else I don't know if they can keep me on." According to the NYT Ethical Handbook, Section 107: "Staff members may not write about people to whom they are related by blood or marriage or with whom they have close personal relationships, or edit material about such people or make news judgements about them." His father claims that the family does not know Comey. "Yeah, he's embellishing. I don't know why he would say that... Yeah, I don't know why... he's not James Comey's godson. I don't even know James Comey." When told that his father said he doesn't know Comey, Dudich changes his story: Dudich: "He's not my Godfather." Undercover Journalist: "Then why did you say that?" Dudich: "Eh, I don't know... It's a good story." "The fact remains that Nick Dudich lies and he's a gatekeeper at the New York Times." says Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, "And that fact should be worrisome to the bosses at the paper of record. Who else are they letting spread misinformation in their name? This is a continuation of Project Veritas's American Pravda series, which began with a three-part expose on CNN in June.
Seems like a reasonable place to post about this, though we have a Puerto Rico thread, too. CNN has been silent about Puerto Rico for days. But now it's 24/7 blasting Trump for his handling of Puerto Rico's crisis. They keep trotting out this woman, Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan. All the woman does is whine, whine, whine. She doesn't meet with any of the 15,000 US personnel there to provide aid and relief and complains there's no help. It's obvious why CNN gives the woman so much air time - she bashes Trump and that fits their narrative. However, the woman is more unpopular in her own city as mayor than Trump is nationwide. About half as popular/approval rating. Close to congress territory. This is before the hurricane, so it's not a reflection of how awful a job she's doing in handling that. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/p...juan-s-mayor-carmen-yul-n-cruz-target-n806216 While Cruz has found popularity in some corners of her city, an El Nuevo Día survey of 1,000 Puerto Ricans conducted in May found that 24 percent of respondents approved of her performance, while 46 percent disapproved. The majority found her to be irresponsible after she pushed for a national strike in May against looming austerity measures, according to the poll.
Media busted again. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/12/john-kelly-schools-white-house-press-corps/ John Kelly schools doltish press corps Gen. John Kelly stepped to the podium in the White House briefing room and delivered a bare-bottom, wire-brush, red-rash public spanking of the political press Thursday — the likes of which we have never seen in the age of modern media. Except, perhaps, every single time President Trump addresses the media or hurls fiery bolts of Twitter lightning in their general direction. But as mere mortals go — even the U.S. Marine general variety — Mr. Kelly’s was a virtuoso performance. Blunt where bluntness was needed. Elegant where elegance was warranted. And throughout, incredibly funny and brutally scathing, even in his kindness. “You need to develop better sources,” he told reporters flatly, without a hint of gaiety. Nervous laughter from the assembled press corps. Ordinarily, military generals are not called on to give journalism lectures. But you don’t have to be an expert in journalism to know how utterly ridiculous these people have gotten, “reporting” about made-up squabbles between people inside the administration.
